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Finland vs Sweden: State Capacity Index

Finland
2.34
in 2015
Sweden
2.35
in 2015
Finland rank
6th
Sweden rank
5th

State Capacity Index over time

  • Finland
  • Sweden
0123196019872015

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 2.35 against 2.34 in Finland, a difference of 0.017.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Sweden ahead.

Finland ranks 6th and Sweden ranks 5th of 165 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
State Capacity Index
Source
Jonathan Hanson and Rachel Sigman (2021); Population based on various sources (2023) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
166 places, 8,015 data points, 1960–2015
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Measures state capacity by combining 21 different indicators related to three key dimensions: extractive capacity, coercive capacity, and administrative capacity. Higher values indicate greater state capacity.